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Teaching History 50
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Editorial - Towards 100 2
News 6
Articles:
History Teachers for the 1990s and Beyond - Helen Patrick 10
Survival or Training? - Martin Booth, Gwenifer Shawyer and Richard Brown 16
Jorvik: some School Children's Reactions - Jeffrey Watkin 21
Research Work in the Primary School - D. Joan Jones...
Teaching History 50
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The Holy Grail? GCSE History that actually enhances historical understanding!
Teaching History article
Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated.
Teaching History 109, Examining History Edition, launched a range of debates about the role and value of our public examinations in history, debates which have continued in these pages and in history teacher conferences (such...
The Holy Grail? GCSE History that actually enhances historical understanding!
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Teaching History 49
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Editorial - Is Neutrality Possible? 2
Letters 3
News 4
Articles:
Childrens' evaluation of evidence on neutral and sensitive topics Roger Austin, Gordon Rae and Keith Hodgkinson 8
Empathy - a case of apathy? - Trevor May and Sean Williams 11
Assessing Drama at GCSE - Graham King, Jennifer Tucker...
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'Please send socks': How much can Reg Wilkes tell us about the Great War?
Teaching History article
This was an opportunity all good historians dream about. A large box crammed with artefacts about a soldier who fought in the First World War, just begging to be read, studied, sorted and organised. Being faced with such a wealth of uncatalogued primary evidence could have proved daunting enough without...
'Please send socks': How much can Reg Wilkes tell us about the Great War?
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Teaching History 126: Outside the Classroom
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
06 ‘I understood before, but not like this:’ maximising historical learning by letting pupils take control of trips – Helen Snelson (Read article)
12 A search beyond the classroom: using a museum to support the renewal of a scheme of work – Hannah Moloney and Paula Kitching (Read article)
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Teaching History 126: Outside the Classroom
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Camels, diamonds and counterfactuals: a model for teaching causal reasoning
Teaching History article
In the last edition of Teaching History, Arthur Chapman described how he uses ICT to develop sixth form students’ conceptual understanding of interpretations, significance and change. In this article, he turns his attention to causal reasoning and analysis. Drawing on the work of historians such as Evans and Carr, he...
Camels, diamonds and counterfactuals: a model for teaching causal reasoning
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Using this map and all your knowledge, become Bismarck
Teaching History article
Understanding the past is not an abstract exercise. Historical questions revolve around decisions made by real people under real pressure. As historians, we factor psychological pressure into our analysis. How, though, are we to enable our students to do the same? To study why Bismarck began a programme of overseas...
Using this map and all your knowledge, become Bismarck
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Teaching History 44
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Editorial
Grade Criteria: opportunity or impending disaster? - R. Ben Jones
Domesday Book - past and present, John Fines and Jon Nichol
An Appreciation of Joe Hunt
Childwrite, Teresa Clark
Computer Update
The Teaching of Irish History in the Secondary School, Roger Swift
The Contributors
Town and Country in the...
Teaching History 44
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Teaching History 123: Constructing History
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
06 Asses, archers and assumptions: strategies for improving thinking skills in history in Years 9 to 13 – Arthur Chapman (Read article)
14 Triumphs Show: 'Source Specs': making sources fun - Rachael Povey (Read article)
16 Little Jack Horner and polite revolutionaries: putting the story back into history – Alf Wilkinson (Read...
Teaching History 123: Constructing History
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Teaching History 41
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Editorial
BEd Students at Work in a Middle School, Michael Gibson 3
Report: The First BALH young Historians' workshop, David Haynes & Ray Acton 5
BBC Educational Broadcasting and Irish History, Victor Kelly 6
Whose Class Is It Anyway? Ian Jones 8
Report: The Second National Conference, Sneh Shalt 11...
Teaching History 41
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Why we must change history GCSE
Teaching History article
A head of steam for change in GCSE history has been building for some time now amongst history teachers, heads of history, advisers, teacher-trainers, researchers, consultants and all who regularly engage in debate about history teaching and learning. All those who read widely, share their practice, experience many Key Stage...
Why we must change history GCSE
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Teaching History 38
Journal
Editorial, page 2
The Certificate of Pre-Vocational Education - What the History Teacher can Contribute - Ben Kerwood, page 3
The Lincolnshire Educational Aids Project - A Successful Launch into Historical Aids - Ray Acton and Tim Hall, page 8
The Humanities Teaching and Computing Project-Jon Nichol with Jackie Dean,...
Teaching History 38
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Teaching History 112: Empire
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
Special 64 page themed edition of Teaching History including: A case study in planning the teaching of the British Empire at key Stage 3, Using this map and all of your knowledge become Bismark, National Archives and the british Empire, Imperialism and the Roman Empire, History's challenge: facing the future,...
Teaching History 112: Empire
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Teaching History 110: Communicating History
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
08 Narrative: an underrated skill - Seán Lang (Read article)
18 Direct teaching of paragraph cohesion - Maria Bakalis (Read article)
27 Developing conceptual understanding through talk and mapping - Jannet van Drie and Carla van Boxteland (Read article)
32 ‘You be Britain and I’ll be Germany...’ Inter-school e-mailing in...
Teaching History 110: Communicating History
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New opportunities for history: implementing the citizenship curriculum in England's secondary schools - a QCA perspective
Teaching History article
In September 2002 Citizenship becomes a completely new subject in England’s secondary schools. Jerome Freeman, Principal Officer for History with the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) — the authority responsible for advising the British government on curriculum content and qualification standards in England - outlines QCA’s view on the connections...
New opportunities for history: implementing the citizenship curriculum in England's secondary schools - a QCA perspective
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Teaching History 94: Raising the Standard
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
Raising the Standard of History education. WW2 cemetries and twenty years of curriculum change, Ordinary pupils, extraordinary results: a structured approach to raising attainment at GCSE, Talk to your inspector: making the most of your history inspection, Stretching the very able student in the mixed ability classroom, Year 11 and...
Teaching History 94: Raising the Standard
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Teaching History 107: Little Stories, Big Pictures
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
This edition deals with the complex relationship between depth work and overview work. Revealing the big picture: patterns, shapes and images at Key Stage 3, Slavery, Learning and teaching about the history of Europe in the 20th Century, Teaching the history of 20th women in Europe, Using Ethel and Ernest...
Teaching History 107: Little Stories, Big Pictures
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Teaching History 36
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Teaching History, June 1983 Number 36
In this issue:
Editorial, page 2
Off the Record: the Ommission of Women from Classroom Historical Evidence - Carol Adams, page 3
Sex Differences and Historical Understanding - Martin Booth, page 7
Sexist Microcosm - R.J. Bradbury and C.A. Newbould, page 9
A Feast...
Teaching History 36
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Teaching History 96: Citizenship and Identity
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
Build it in, don’t bolt it on: history’s opportunity to support critical citizenship - Andrew Wrenn (Read article)
Weighing a century with a website: teaching Year 9 to be critical - Lindsey Rayner (Read article)
Democracy is not boring - Sean Lang (Read article)
Doomed Youth: Using theatre to support...
Teaching History 96: Citizenship and Identity
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Teaching History 32
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Editorial, page 2
The Role of History in Multi-Cultural Education - David Edgington, page 3
The Perception of Indian History Teachers about the Ideal Pupil - Vijay K. Raina, page 6
Can History Survive? - Trevor Fisher, page 8
Report: Teaching A Level History: A Conference Report - Sandra Armstrong,...
Teaching History 32
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Teaching History 34
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Teaching History, October 1982 Number 34
In this issue:
Editorial, page 2
Museums and the Use of Evidence in History Teaching - Carol Adams and Sue Millar, page 3
A Course of Local History for 12-13 year olds and their Reactions to it - John Mathews, page 7
Developments in...
Teaching History 34
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Working as a team to teach the Holocaust well: a language-centred approach
Teaching History article
Clear themes run through the work of the history department at Huntington School. A remarkably consistent emphasis on language and literacy, including work on speaking and listening of many types, is a hallmark of this sequence of six Year 9 lessons on the Holocaust, described in detail by head of...
Working as a team to teach the Holocaust well: a language-centred approach
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Parallel catastrophes? Uniqueness, redemption and the Shoah
Teaching History article
Nicolas Kinloch’s 1998 review of Michael Burleigh’s Ethics and Extermination in Teaching History, 93, sparked a debate amongst our readers about the teaching of the Holocaust, concerning both rationales and practical approaches. Citing the damage caused to pupils’ understanding by a Spielberg view of history, he emphasised that the rationale...
Parallel catastrophes? Uniqueness, redemption and the Shoah
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From horror to history: teaching pupils to reflect on significance
Teaching History article
In this detailed account of the first stages of a lesson sequence for Year 9 (13-14 year-olds), Kate Hammond sets out the tensions that must be examined and resolved when planning and teaching this most demanding of topics. How can young teenagers be helped to develop a mature response to...
From horror to history: teaching pupils to reflect on significance
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Teaching History 29
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Editorial, page 2
Notes on Contributors, page 3
The Assassination of John F. Kennedy - Keith Hodgkinson and Michael Long, page 3
Notes and news, page 7
Primary School Children's Preception of Authenticity and Time in Historical Narrative Pictures - John West, page 8
A Course in Local History Tonbridge...
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